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Here’s what has been making the news across the country on Sunday.
NHS medic arrested for child abuse
An NHS medic was arrested while working at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after he was caught downloading a horror haul of child abuse images.
Gordon Truong, 40, was on duty as a radiographer at the capital hospital when Police Scotland detectives turned up interview him about accessing the shocking material.
Truong was taken into custody and later charged with possessing more than 7000 pictures and videos depicting the sexual abuse of female children aged between 10 and 15 years old.
The healthcare professional was found to have hundreds of images rated at Category A – the most depraved – showing young victims posing naked and being sexually abused by adults.
Truong admitted two charges of making or taking, and possessing indecent images of children over a near five year period when he appeared at the capital’s sheriff court on Thursday, May 28.
READ MORE: NHS medic arrested on shift at Edinburgh hospital in child abuse images sting
Child rapist removed from house
Police escorted a child rapist from a house in the Highlands after an angry mob gathered outside.
Robert McGregor, 45, was removed from the property at Wilson Place in Conon Bridge on Saturday, May 30 after around 50 people gathered outside.
Evil McGregor was jailed for ten years in 2017 after filming himself raping three boys, with the youngest victim just three-years-old.
He is believed to have been released from jail last week. Locals organised a protest after learning he had moved into the area.
Footage shows the mob surrounding the house behind a police van parked outside with its back doors open.
READ MORE: Angry mob chant as evil child rapist removed from Highland home
‘Teen who raped daughter should be jailed’
A mum whose daughter’s alleged sex attacker was allowed to escape prosecution because of his age has slammed a judge’s decision to free three teenage rapists.
The woman’s 17-year-old daughter was attacked by her boyfriend, also 17, who was given a “diversion from prosecution” that allowed him to avoid a trial and a possible criminal conviction.
Now the mum, of Ayrshire, has hit out after similar rules applied in a case in England saw three boys handed youth rehabilitation orders.
Sentencing them, Judge Nicholas Rowland had said he wanted to “avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily”.
The case, which has sparked national criticism, saw the teens walk out of Southampton Crown Court court with 10 rape convictions between them.
READ MORE: ‘Young rapists like the teen who raped my daughter should face jail’
Arrests made as 700 cars gather
Police were called to ‘serious disorder’ at a car ‘meet up’ involving 700 vehicles in a Scots car park.
Two men, aged 25 and 28, were arrested in connection with a road traffic offence and drugs offences while 14 vehicles were banned from being driven and three seized at the event on Aberdeen’s Garthdee Road on Saturday.
A further eight vehicles were issued with defect notices while almost 60 drivers were slapped with Fixed Penalty Notices.
Police Scotland issued the update on Sunday after multiple calls were made by members of the public reporting incidents.
READ MORE: Serious disorder and arrests as 700 cars gather at Scots car park ‘meet up’
Nicola Sturgeon could face private prosecution
SNP donors are taking legal action against Nicola Sturgeon over stolen party funds after her estranged fraudster husband Peter Murrell was jailed.
Activists responsible for the initial police complaints that brought down the ex-CEO will demand an official Crown Office review of the decision not to charge the former First Minister and are considering a private prosecution as well as suing for damages.
They want to see Sturgeon face court over what they believe is clear evidence she repeatedly blocked scrutiny of SNP accounts while leader as her partner embezzled £400,000 of party cash.
David Henry, a former SNP candidate for National Secretary and a local branch secretary, complained to police about missing ring-fenced cash after donating hundreds of pounds.
He told the Sunday Mail: “I think this is Scotland’s Watergate. What started out as people outside questioning the missing ring-fenced funds morphed into a much wider scandal.
READ MORE: SNP party donors ‘could seek private prosecution’ of Nicola Sturgeon
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